I read “In the Family” four more times this week -- it was the fifth through the eighth time that I read it in two days. I’ve noticed a few more things about it after reading it four more times....
Blog
Various ventures into Mr. Scott’s mind.
Rainy Day
It was supposed to rain all day today. It was also supposed to be a day off school today, which would have made the rain seem particularly dreary as we would probably have gone out and done...
Bonfire
Today, after all their school work, my kids picked up all the branches that had fallen in our backyard. We have a lot of trees back there -- oaks, poplars, and sadly, a fair number of sweetgum...
In the Backyard
When everyone's work is done, what else could we do but go shoot the bb gun in the backyard?
After the Rain
Babia from My Apartment
Babia Gora in winter
Winter Church
This is the church in which my wife and I were married. I took this picture Christmas Eve/Christmas Day at about two in the morning. We'd gone to midnight Mass, returned to her parents' home, and...
Lipniczanka
The small river that runs through Lipnica Wielka.
New Year’s Day, 2005
The last New Year’s we spent in Poland
New Year’s Day, 2003
My wife and I spent New Year's 2003 in Slovakia with some friends. We rented a cabin on the shores of Lake Orava, which was formed in the 1950s when the Slovak government built a hydroelectric dam,...
Swing
Lipnica Wielka, Winter 2001
The village where I lived and worked in southern Poland. The school is the large white building at the right of the picture.
Babia Gora
I lived in a small village at the base of this mountain for seven years. In some ways, it was the most magical adventure of my life.
Christmas 2019
For our family, as a half-Polish family (perhaps three-quarter-Polish family since I lived there so long), the highlight of the entire year is always the Wigilia (pronounced "Vee-gee-lee-a") dinner....
That Old House
Age, it seems, is a relative concept.